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Here's How One Campaign Is Using The Trade Issue To Win
Trade is a huge issue for many blue-collar voters and in "rust-belt" regions that have been wiped out by the offshoring of our jobs and factories. This has given North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan an opportunity.
Tax-Dodging Deal Fails Thanks To Obama's Inversion Rules – And Us
When you sign an online petition, send an email and especially donate to a cause, it can make a real difference. In the case of companies “renouncing their citizenship” in order to dodge their taxes, it really did work.
Progressive Breakfast
Positive Signs For Dems In Early Voting "Early Voting Numbers Look Good for Democrats" reports NYT: "Democratic efforts to turn out the young and nonwhite voters who sat out the 2010 midterm elections appear to be paying off in several Senate battleground states. More...
Big Money Taking Over Education Politics
Big money is now altering the electoral process in school board elections and state level contests for school administration. The results are apt to be the same we’ve seen in more popular elections – a distortion of democracy
Dead Heat: Why Are Republicans Struggling To Win On This Red Map?
The fundamentals of the 2014 Senate map are tilted toward the Republicans, with Democrats defending seven seats in states that Mitt Romney won. And yet, with only four days until Election Day, the polls are all tied up.
Harvard Poll Gets It Wrong: Millennials Aren't Massively Shifting Right
The "Survey of Young Americans’ Attitudes Toward Politics and Public Service" asked the wrong questions, and thus fails to paint an accurate picture of the challenges that underlie millennials' political beliefs.
How Racist Policies Made Ferguson a Pocket of Concentrated Despair
An elaborate mythology blames a “culture of poverty” for pockets of concentrated despair, like Ferguson. Another view holds that whites simply fled such areas. But a new study blames a century of intentionally discriminatory policies.
Progressive Breakfast
Republicans Worry About Governing "Civil war looms for GOP" reports The Hill: "Conservatives salivating over the prospects of a huge victory on Nov. 4 are pressuring House and Senate GOP leaders to go big after Election Day ... The problem for Speaker John Boehner...
Corporations Act To Make Congress A Wholly Owned Subsidiary
Unless voters come out in force, it looks like corporate money is about to buy itself another house of Congress.
For the American people, the moral of this story couldn't be clearer.
New Insight Into A Democratic Populist Path To Victory
Stan Greenberg still sees a way for Democrats to have a good outcome Tuesday – and it's through the party's base in the "rising American electorate." But to get there, Dems will have to pivot to a more populist message.
